Cover Crops for Clean Water
Edited by W.L. Hargrove
1991
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Preface
Conference Planning Committee
Increasing concerns about the influence of agriculture on water quality served as the backdrop for the conference on which this book is based. The Soil and Water Conservation Society and its Legumes in Conservation Tillage Systems Task Force saw the need to collect and disseminate new and old information on cover crops and their role in water quality. The result was a conference held April 9-11, 1991, in Jackson, Tennessee.
This publication is intended to summarize, augment, and extend the information presented at that conference. The papers presented herein include the latest information on the role of cover crops in water quality management, including reducing water runoff, soil erosion, agrichemicals lost in runoff, and nitrate leaching to groundwater.
The large number of cooperating and supporting agencies for the conference and this book is testimony to the importance and urgency of water quality problems and to the potential benefits of cover crop management. It is our hope that this proceedings will provide a base of information that can be used to improve water quality through soil and crop management strategies that use cover crop technologies.
The planning committee thanks the Soil and Water Conservation Society for sponsoring the conference and the many cooperating organizations and agencies for their support, including the American Society of Agronomy; Crop Science Society of America; ICI Americas; Land Improvement Contractors of America; Milan Experiment Station; Monsanto Agricultural Company; Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.; Soil Science Society of America; Agricultural Research Department, National Fertilizer & Environmental Research Center, Tennessee Valley Authority; Truax Company, Inc.; the US. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, Cooperative State Research Service (Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture program), and Soil Conservation Service; University of Tennessee; and West Tennessee Experiment Station.
Financial support for these proceedings, in particular, came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and the National Fertilizer & Environmental Research Center of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Suggested Citation
Hargrove, W.L., ed. 1991. Cover Crops for Clean Water. Ankeny, IA: Soil and Water Conservation Society.
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The Challenge of Clean Water
Don O. Richardson
Expectations of cover crops for sustainable agriculture
R. Lal, E. Regnier, D. J. Eckert, W. M. Edwards, and R. Hammond
An information data base on cover crops
Jill ShoreAuburn and Robert Bugg
Cover crop effects on soil erosion by wind and water
G. W. Langdale, R. L. Blevins, D. L. Karlen, D. K. McCool, M. A. Nearing, E. L. Skidmore, A. W. Thomas, D. D. Tyler, and J. R. Williams
Effects of crop residue and tillage practices on water infilitration and crop production
George C. Naderman
Soil surface condition effects on runoff and erosion on selected vineyard soils
P.J.E. Louw and A.T.P. Bennie
Cover crop experience in South Coastal British Columbia
Geoff A. Hughes-Games and Ron A. Bertrand
Oat cover cropping in sugarcane for weed and erosion control in Hawaii
Carl I. Evensen and Robert V. Osgood
Permanent cover crops for vineyards
Frederick B. Gaffney and Martin van der Grinten
Conservation of soil and water by using a new tillage system for row crops
Manfred Estler
Cover crops for wind erosion control in semiarid regions
J. D. Bilbro
Measuring cover crop soil moisture competition in north coastal California vineyards
Phillip Blake
Effect of cover crops on surface water quality
A. N. Sharpley and S. J. Smith
Effect of cereal grain winter cover crops on surface water pollutant transport from Coastal Plain corn production systems
K. W. Staver and R. B. Brinsfield
Water quality impacts of winter rye cover with selected best management practices in Pennsylvania
J. M. Hamlett and K. Brannan
Soybean tillage and cover crop effects on water runoff and soil erosion
Monroe Rasnake
Effect of cover crops on groundwater quality
J. J. Meisinger, W. L. Hargrove, R. L. Mikkelsen, J. R. Williams, and V. W. Benson
Impact of annual cropping on shallow groundwater quality in the Northern Great Plains
G. J. Beke
Tillage and cover crop effects on nitrate leaching
G. V. Wilson, D. D. Tyler, J. Logan, and K. Turnage
Evapotranspiration and nitrogen accumulation in a winter rye cover crop in the northern Corn Belt
D. C. Reicosky and D.D. Warnes
Influence of fall tillage and cover crops on soil water and nitrogen use efficiency of corn grown on a Coastal Plain soil
D. W. Reeves and J. T. Touchton
Relating nitrogen uptake by cereal grain winter cover crops to changes in groundwater nitrate concentration
K. W. Staver, R. B. Brinsfield, and W. L. Magette
Use of ceral grain cover crops for reducing groundwater nitrate contamination in the Chesapeake Bay region
R. B. Brinsfield and K. W. Staver
Cultivation of cover crops to control nitrate leaching
M. Smukalski, Jutta Rogasik, and Susanne Obenauf
NITROGEN CYCLING
Role of cover crops in nitrogen cycling
John W. Doran and M. Scott Smith
Soil nitrogen movement under winter cover crops and residues
Greg D. Hoyt and Robert L. Mikkelsen
Influence of cover crops on denitrification and nitrogen mineralization
C. F. Drury, J. A. Stone, and W. I. Findlay
Effects of winter cover crops on corn yield in Parana, Brazil
Ademir Calegari
Benefits of a winter legume cover crop to corn: Rotation versus fixed-nitrogen effects
H. A. Torbert and D. W. Reeves
Rye nitrogen cycling for corn and potato production
G. K. Evanylo
Decomposition and nitrogen recycling of cover crops and crop residues
Z. C. Somda, P. B. Ford, and W. L. Hargrove
Effect of cover crops on cycling of nitrogen and phosphorus in a winter wheat-corn sequence
R. A. Samson, C. M. Foulds, and D. G. Patriquin
Role of cover crops in recovery and maintenance of soil productivity
R. R. Bruce, P. F. Hendrix, and G. W. Langdale
Fall-planted spring oats: A low-risk cover crop to reduce erosion following soybeans
Steven J. Corak, Thomas C. Kaspar, and Robert Horton
Long-run impacts of cover crops on yield, farm income, and nitrogen recycling
Thyrele Robertson, Verel Benson, Jimmy R. Williams, Charles H. Lander, and David L. Schertz
Development and evaluation of germplasm and cultivars of cover crops
J. R. Sims and A. E. Slinkard
Adaption of legume species as cover crops in no-till systems
B. N. Duck and D. D. Tyler
Legumes in rotation with corn in southeastern Nebraska
P. T. Koerner and J. F. Power
Native winter cover shows potential in no-till cotton
J. S. Parkman and L. H. Bloodworth
Development of caley pea for cover crop use
J. A. Mosjidis, Charles M. Owsley, and Malcome Kirkland
New cool-season legumes for use in conservation tillage
C. M. Owsleyand W. L. Hargrove
Cooperative efforts of the Soil Conservation Service in developing and evaluating U.S. cover crops
David G. Lorenz and Jerry Lemunyon
Role of cover crops in weed management and water quality
A. Douglas Worsham
Mechanical control of legume cover crops
Seth M. Dabney, Normie W. Buehring, and Dennis B. Reginelli
Cover crop management for soybean production in northern Missouri
Z. R. Helsel, N. C. Wollenhaupt, and K. D. Kephart
Effects of a winter rye cover crop system and available soil water on weed control and yield in soybeans
D. D. Warnes, J. H. Ford, C. V. Eberlein, and W. E. Lueschen
Weed management in corn polyculture systems
Jane Mt. Pleasant and Thomas W. Scott
Cover crop effects on weeds, diseases, and insects of vegetables
Sharad C. Phatak, Robert L. Bugg, Donald R. Sumner, J. Danny Gay, Kathryn E. Brunson, and Richard B. Chalfant
Suppression of black root rot on cotton by winter legume cover crops
C. S. Rothrock and S. R. Kendig
Cover crops and control of arthropod pests of agriculture
Robert L. Bugg
Cover crop, nitrogen, and insect interactions
B. Warren Roberts and Bob Cartwright
Role of cover crops in integrated crop production systems
J. F. Power and V. O. Biederbeck
Strip management of crimson clover as a reseeding cover crop in no-till corn
N. N. Rannells and M. G. Wagger
Crimson clover in a reduced-chemical-input cropping system
M. G. Cook and L D. King
Cover crop management systems for broccoli
Francis X. Mangan, Stephen J. Herbert, and Gerald L. Litchjield
On-farm evaluation of legume interseedings in broccoli
C. M. Foulds, K. A. Stewart, and R. A. Samson
Economics of no-till corn planted into winter cover crops
J. Bowden, L. Jordan, and D. Biehle
The promise of strip intercropping: Is it economically viable
Craig Chase and Michael Duffy
INTEGRATED CROP-LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS
Use of cover crops with integrated crop-livestock production systems
J. C. Gardner and D. B. Faulkner
Improved use of fertilizer, land, and climatic resources by interseeding a cool-season grass into a warm-season grass
S. R. Wilkinson and J. A. Stuedemann
On-farm economic and environmental impacts of cover on corn silage ground on a limited-resource-based Tennessee dairy farm
Burton C. English, Thyrele Robertson, Madadev Bhat, and Bary Bullen
Winter cover crop management in a high rainfall region with large populations of waterfowl
W. D. Temple, A. A. Bomke, and T. Duynstee